In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in the competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products faster. In response to these pressing needs, there should be some new approach compatible in flexible circumstances. This paper presents a solution based on the popular Stage-Gate system, which is closely linked with virtual team approach. Virtual teams can provide a platform to advance the knowledge-base in a company and thus to reduce time-to-market. This article introduces conceptual product development architecture under a virtual team umbrella. The paper describes all the major aspects of new product development (NPD), NPD process and its relationship with virtual teams, Stage-Gate system finally presents a modified Stage-Gate system to cope up with the changing needs. It also provides the guidelines for the successful implementation of virtual teams in new product development.

A reproducible page with four book marks that can be copied back-to-back; one side has space for notes on characters that students encounter during reading, while the opposite side provides question stems to promote active reading

A graphic organizer that encourages students to pose questions about a text at different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy; students then share their questions with a partner and formulate answers to each other's questions based on their discussion

A graphic organizer for identifying the five most important concepts from a reading, with space for students to put the concept into their own words, to explain why the concept is important, and to make connections to other important concepts in the reading

A four-column chart that helps students identify what they already know for sure about a topic, what they think they know about the topic but are unsure, what they would like to learn about the topic, and the connections they can make between the topic and other things they already know

A set of graphic organizers that can be used for the different roles in a literature circle (e.g., discussion director, illustrator, connector, word watcher, summarizer), including bookmarks that remind students of questions they might pose while reading and discussing their book

The QAR strategy identifies four Question-Answer Relationships that students are likely to encounter as they read texts and attempt to answer questions about what they have read. These include "right there" questions, "think and search" questions, "author and you" questions, and "on my own" questions

Q-Notes combines the strategies of SQ3R and Cornell Notes, and provides a note-taking format for posing questions while reading in the left-hand margin and writing answers to the questions in the right-hand margin

A graphic organizer that students use to analyze a writing model based on the criteria of a rubric to then explain how their writing is similar to and different from the model, with space to identify next steps for revision

A graphic organizer that can be used to help students understand important vocabulary words or concepts, including space for the etymology of the word, antonyms and synonyms, the definition, a symbolic representation of the word, and space for using it in a sentence

EMBRACING GREEN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION THROUGH STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: A CASE OF AN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY

Abstract

What makes a technological innovation successful for an industry? This study examines how green technology innovation is impacted by strategic management of the human resource in firms. The value of this study lies in its intention to explain the needs to effectively blend people matters first before endeavouring technologies. We focus on Malaysiaâs leading automobile manufacturer, Proton which currently embarks on smart green initiatives in its product development. The quantitative survey identifies potential challenges of Protonâs human resource management that may infringe green technology process. Our findings confirm the effects of strategic human resource management system on adopting the green technology innovation. The most important factors affecting the implementation of green technology include knowledge application, team development, knowledge sharing, performance-based reward and training of before and during the process of embracing the new technology.

Monday, 23 December 2013

The search can be time consuming and sometimes
tedious task. How can make it easier? How do deal with situations such as:

“I just join as new postgraduate students
and I am not sure how to do a literature search”

“I have been in research for some time now
but I spend a lot of time to get the articles I want”

“I am sure I have downloaded the article but
I am not able to find it”

“I wanted to write a new paper, how can I
manage the references in the shortest possible time?”

“I have many references, some of my old
papers, and some of my current research. Sometimes, they are so many that I
can’t recall where I have kept them in my folders!”

“I have written an article and I am not able
to find a proper Journal”

"I want to increase the citation of my
papers, how do I do?"

We need an effective search strategy can save hours of wasted
research time and provide a clear direction for your research. The benefits of
attending this workshop are numerous and include learning how to change the
direction of searching to discover and how to use more efficient the tools that
are available through the Net.

2. Objective

The workshop seeks to serve the following
objectives:

To help students who seek to reduce the
search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use
the "tools" that are available through the Net.*

To evaluate the types of literature that
researchers will encounter.

To convert the information on the search for
a written document.

To help researchers learn how to search and
analyze the right journal to submit.

To promote their publication for further
citation.

* For more information on this workshop, see the Research Tools
web page.

This workshop, aims to help research
students in order to reduce research time by developing researcher knowledge to
use more effectively the “Tools” which are available through the net. Research
Tools is the skill to understand and use information technology tools to carry
out research, including the use of discipline-related software and online
resources.

The online “Research Tools” box is included
over 700 tools. However, the speaker tries to introduce all necessary tools to
postgraduate students in a simple and applicable way.

3. Who should attend?

The workshop is aimed at postgraduate
students, young academics and researchers who have started his/her research and
would like to increase the effectiveness of the research. The e-skills learned
from the workshop are useful across various research disciplines and research
institutions. Participants should have the requisite computer skills prior to
taking the workshop.

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About Me

Nader Ale Ebrahim has
a Technology Management PhD degree from the Department of Engineering
Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya
(UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He holds a Master of Science in the
mechanical engineering from University of Tehran, Iran.